Prescription for NHS

I WOULD go further than Brian Jenkin (Letters) in measures to help the NHS out of crisis. My suggestions are as follows:

SALARIES for managers to be frozen. Any performance-related payments or bonuses to be scrapped.

ALL managers should take part in work experience in every department, for at least a week in each. In some places they might have to simply observe. In others, such as wards, they should be hands-on, emptying bed pans, changing beds, cleaning floors, helping patients to feed, all the menial tasks which their employees have to perform.

If they don’t wish to participate in this scheme, they should be sent on their way, without any pay-off.

PROTECTED salaries should be abolished. There are many instances of highly paid individuals being moved to lesser jobs on high protected salaries and not caring how they fulfil their new duties. There are those who are rewarded for doing their jobs badly.

Only when all this rot has been cleared out will the NHS return to what it should be, and doctors and nurses will want to stay and feel fulfilled in their posts, with suitable remuneration. Funds for the NHS are not limitless, and throwing money at it is not the answer. CHRISTINE BRIDSON-JONES, Wool, Dorset.